mikeytorres2

Hey everyone, this is Mikey the artist behind this shirt. I just wanted to explain that the design was inspired by one of my tattoos, which I got after graduating from culinary school. I was a contestant on NBC's The Chopping Block and wore a woot shirt in the first challenge. Woot approached me with the idea of doing my own shirt for foodies, and here it is! Don't let this little anecdote get you down though, I'm very much enjoying your interpretations! Thanks!!!
btw, if you want to see my tatt, go to
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=22361053&albumID=248611&imageID=57743567#a=248611&i=8450235

or if someone knows how to post a pic in these little boxes, go ahead and steal it from myspace and post it!

shutts67

mattmg6

I'm a chef and would consider buying this but I have too many black woot shirts already, and it is kind of simple. The phrase is used in the kitchen to describe the different ingredients of a dish that you get together to make a whole. "I'm going to gather the Mise en Place for this soup, then I'm gonna make that sucker!" Sometimes abbreviated as just "Mise".

30ish shirts for me, 15 random shirts, and 8 other woots. Been crashing the servers on 5 Bunch of Crepes's and have yet to get one.

robertlucas0327

Its defiantly a cook thing. In a kitchen you must be the master of your mise. Everything that you need. proteins, veg, salt and pepper, sauces, tongs, spoons, a bain marie (water bath), your line knife (usually smaller than your prep knife to conserve room on a tight line(which is where you cook during service)). Cooking has its whole own set of terms that wouldn't make much sense to an outsider.

ChefRAZ

mikeytorres2 wrote:Hey everyone, this is Mikey the artist behind this shirt. I just wanted to explain that the design was inspired by one of my tattoos, which I got after graduating from culinary school. I was a contestant on NBC's The Chopping Block and wore a woot shirt in the first challenge. Woot approached me with the idea of doing my own shirt for foodies, and here it is! Don't let this little anecdote get you down though, I'm very much enjoying your interpretations! Thanks!!!

did you use a picture that you took or get one from google? looks like a Forschner knife to me.

robertlucas0327

mikeytorres2 wrote:Hey everyone, this is Mikey the artist behind this shirt. I just wanted to explain that the design was inspired by one of my tattoos, which I got after graduating from culinary school. I was a contestant on NBC's The Chopping Block and wore a woot shirt in the first challenge. Woot approached me with the idea of doing my own shirt for foodies, and here it is! Don't let this little anecdote get you down though, I'm very much enjoying your interpretations! Thanks!!!

Please design more! all the food shirts on the net suck! I bought this one. Need a good Foie shirt too!

mikeytorres2

rglee129 wrote:I guess woot is officially going for the quasi-celebrity angle? I wonder if woot sought out Mikey or is he also a graphic designer on the side. I want to know more about the process out of curiosity...

Woot found me, but aside from being a chef I dabble in fashion and wanted to make and design clothing for chefs and foodies, so I was happy to answer Woot's call!

Matingas

sortelma

[quote postid="3117577" user="mikeytorres2"]Hey everyone, this is Mikey the artist behind this shirt. I just wanted to explain that the design was inspired by one of my tattoos, which I got after graduating from culinary school. I was a contestant on NBC's The Chopping Block and wore a woot shirt in the first challenge. Woot approached me with the idea of doing my own shirt for foodies, and here it is! Don't let this little anecdote get you down though, I'm very much enjoying your interpretations! Thanks!!!

neophyte34

wow.. that was wierd. i was watching the Chopping Block on Hulu for the first time, on a whim, and just happened to click over to shirt.woot during an ad, and whattya know... there's mikey's design. does that mean I should buy it?

auntiesash

I love this shirt. I do martial arts and I speak french. I understand the cooking reference, but I like the double meaning (intentional or not) about finding someplace appropriate (and probably violent) to store this stray knife.

Yeah, that scene bothered me too when I watched that episode. It was staged and it showed.

Things like that are probably why The Chopping Block was just unceremoniously canceled by NBC (did I say canceled? I should have said "taken out behind the woodshed and shot"). I actually liked the show, even though it had more than its share of problems and made me cringe on several occasions, and I'm hoping they'll eventually air the rest of the episodes (instead of the Law & Order reruns that took its place), but who knows...

tjwood

Woah. If people had issues about Monday's shirt encouraging use of inhalants, this must surely be way worse for the unfortunate-interpretation-out-of-intended-context brigade?

Maybe this is a cultural thing, but in Britain at the moment knife crime is (perhaps wrongly) portrayed as the cause of all evil (we don't have guns, so our kids carry knives instead. Or something). So I'm not sure I'd want to (or want to see anyone) go round with a knife and the phrase "put in place" on my chest. That's only a tiny step removed from having a knife and the words "go stabby" or something. Not a happy image.

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